Periodontitis is a complex disease that involves interactions among pathogenic bacteria, host immune response, and environmental and genetic risk factors. Treatment of periodontitis requires a proper diagnosis to identify the etiology and also to modify risk factors of the specific patient, followed by control of periodontal infection and application of periodontal surgery when indicated. In modern dentistry, when implant therapy is merged into conventional approaches, it is critical and sometimes difficult for the dentist to make a final decision of…

Foreword It is now universally acknowledged that photography in dentistry is an essential and irreplaceable clinical tool for documentation and communication. (1-3) One of the characteristics, but also one of the limits, of photography is that it is a totally static document, a specific scene fixed in its instantaneous form, but not in its development, while video recording is the narration of a scene as it develops within a given period, and therefore is totally and intrinsically dynamic. We believe…

A 42-year old male patient with good general health presented with a severe gingival recession on tooth 11 causing a significative asymmetry of the smile. Although he was interested by several minor problems (incongruous previous restorations, slight gingival recessions in other areas), the patient explicitly asked for the substitution of the right maxillary central incisor and the treatment of the maxillary anterior teeth crowding. At the visual and radiographic inspections, tooth 11 was affected by a serious apical migration of…

INTRODUCTION The need to shape a root canal root canal thoroughly is surely the primary purpose of any proper endodontic treatment. Only by removing the canal content (whether organic or not) irrigants are able to carry out their action, allowing the sealer and the filling materials to seal the endodont.…

Dental erosion is spreading rapidly among younger generations of patients. Clinicians often underestimate the extent of this disease and postpone its treatment due to a lack of awareness and/or to uncertainty regarding the proper course of action. The discussion of when and how to treat young individuals affected by dental erosion has split the dental community into two groups: clinicians who treat eroded teeth excessively and clinicians who do not treat eroded teeth at all. In this case report, a…

Maxillary functional orthopedics (MFO), officially introduced in 1936th in the orthodontic world by Andresen and Haulp as valid alternative in the treatment of malocclusions, has always been subject to profound passion by both followers and opponents. In the middle of last century the idea of being able to intervene positively or negatively influencing the growth of the jaw was strongly denied in the light of the belief that there was a growth program exclusively determined by genetics and virtually…

The 28 year old patient came into our office complaining of tooth sensitivity. When doing the anamnesis, she denied any history of dental or facial trauma. But she declared that she has been eating lemons 2 times a day for the past 12 years. On examination, we found no TMJ, muscle or periodontal problems. As part of our protocol, we requested a panoramic x-ray and did facial and dental photos, on which we discussed the dental problems with the…

The need to work under dry conditions, free of saliva, has been recognized for centuries, and the idea of using a sheet of rubber to isolate the tooth dates exactly 153 years! The introduction of this notion is attributed to a young American dentist from New York, Sanford Christie Barnum, who in 1864 demonstrated for the first time the advantages of isolating the tooth with a rubber sheet.…

Dear friends, I’m doctor Loris Prosper a dentist and a dental technician. I love our beautiful work since I started doing it, more than 45 years ago. My area of expertise is fixed prosthodontic in aesthetic area that, in my opinion, should respect biology, preserve teeth and soft tissue health and respond to minimal invasive criteria since we make irreversible procedure when we prepare the abutment. It is only a short while I’ve published the book :”Bioestetics in the Oral…

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